From 66 entries, 24 have been shortlisted by the jury in the 2026 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work, which seeks conceptually rigorous, inventive responses to contemporary architectural issues. The prize promotes debate and to generate ideas about architecture by rewarding compelling work in its conceptual stages.<\/p>\n
The shortlisted proposals are:<\/p>\n
A New School of Architecture \u2013 HSP <\/p>\n
Acting in the Meantime \u2013 Eliza Ng <\/p>\n
Are You Being Served? \u2013 Eliza Innes <\/p>\n
Asyndeton: Unseen Fantasies of Reality \u2013 Pei Kai Tan <\/p>\n
Beneath the Shadows of Palm: Blueprints for Rural Palm Oil Territories \u2013 Danielle Lee <\/p>\n
Biography of Design \u2013 Design Foundry <\/p>\n
Building Community Resilience in a Disrupted World \u2013 IDA Alliance <\/p>\n
Built Back Better: Urban Resilience for the Township of Lismore \u2013 Carmelo Nastasi <\/p>\n
Ex Libris Singapore \u2013 Lily \u00c9ire Parsons <\/p>\n
Flinders Island Community Vet \u2013 Bence Mulcahy <\/p>\n
Friends of the Void \u2013 Jamie Bond <\/p>\n
Gutless Wonder \u2013 Yasmin Fennessy <\/p>\n
Kidscapes \u2013 Kali Marnane and Tess Martin in collaboration <\/p>\n
NSW Pattern Book<\/a> \u2013 In Common Studio<\/p>\n P2 Contemporary \u2013 Cicely Brown, Finn Holle and Sophie Shaw <\/p>\n Patterns of Footscray \u2013 Card <\/p>\n Play, Her Way \u2026 \u2013 Sophia Di Giandomenico <\/p>\n ReVault 2.0 \u2013 Supermanoeuvre <\/p>\n Richmond Sportslink \u2013 Bates Smart <\/p>\n Roads that Separate, Walls that Connect: Civic Propositions for Parramatta Road \u2013 Keita Sugimoto and Thomas Papetti <\/p>\n Spectral Dialogues \u2013 Katie Taylor <\/p>\n The Art of Darkness \u2013 Scar <\/p>\n The Greater Sydney Building Society \u2013 Billy McQueenie <\/p>\n Walyalup\/Fremantle \u2013 What If \u2013 Whadjuk Balardong Elder Robyn Collard with Simon Pendal Architect<\/p>\n The 2026 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work jury comprised Ingrid Bakker of Hassell; Kirsteen Mackay from the Office for Design and Architecture SA; Deo Prasad of the University of New South Wales; Stuart Vokes of Vokes and Peters; and Georgia Birks, associate editor of Architecture Australia, as jury chair.<\/p>\n The winner of the prize will be announced on 2 February 2026 on ArchitectureAu and in the Architecture Australia magazine.<\/p>\n The AA Prize for Unbuilt Work<\/a> is organised by Architecture Media<\/a>, and supported by presenting partner Adelaide University<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From 66 entries, 24 have been shortlisted by the jury in the 2026 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-281339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}